“They matched up with us a little bit out of the zone” in the third quarter, Smithhart said.

Gillespie said the strategy is to change the defensive look frequently.

“They were attacking us a little bit in our man, and we’ve been playing a little bit more zone more often,” the Marshals coach said. “That’s something that we’ve prepared for and it did get them standing around and shooting some three-pointers out of rhythm.”

His team also did a much better job of rebounding in the second half, Gillespie said.

The Marshals got 15 points and eight rebounds from Chase Clark, despite foul trouble that sent the junior to the bench for nearly a third of the game’s 32 minutes.

Cole Nelson and Austin Rentfrow added 11 points apiece.

C.J. Cotton was the only player in double figures for the Colonels with 11 points.

Marshal defenders positioned themselves in the path of drives to the basket by the Cardinals, who were whistled for six charges in an 11-minute stretch including the final three minutes of the second quarter and the entire third period.

Those calls help the Marshals outscore Mayfield 26-6 in the third quarter to turn a five-point game into a blowout.

Rentfrow, a 6-5 center, already had 10 points in first-half action when he took a bullet pass from Chase Buchanan and got the first points after intermission and later added another basket in the third period that pushed the lead to 41-21.

York had three three-point plays, two on back-to-back long-distance jump shots and the third on a steal, layup and free throw, and Clark had back-to-back baskets, one from three-point range.

Reserves Noah Steele, Logan Taylor and Peter Northcutt scored consecutive baskets to close out the period.

The Marshals shot 60 percent from the floor from both two-point and three-point range and had the same figure from the free-throw line. On the other end of the court, their defense held Mayfield to 31 percent from the floor, 25 percent from long range.

It was the second straight win for the Marshals over a top team from the neighboring Third District. Marshall County knocked off St. Mary, which tied Mayfield for the top spot in their district, 62-51 on Saturday night.